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WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THESE DESIGNS
The Quilt Top as a Stage: Planning the Design, Sizing Your Designs, Negative Space, Hints for Repeated Images, Transitional Quilting Lines, Transferring the Designs, Tools to Make Your (Quilting) Life Easier
DESIGNS
- HOME & GARDEN
Ball on tee, baseball player, basketball player, bowl and steaming mug, carrot, chef's knife, cherry tomatoes, coffeepot, crescent wrench, electric guitar, fancy chair, football tackle, golf putt, hammer, hanging pots, hockey player, hole-in-one, kitchen blender, kitchen mixer, long shears, mixing whisk and tea kettle, monster truck, motorcycle, Mr. Toaster, nail, peas, pitcher, rake, pots on stovetop, saw, scissors, screwdriver, serrated knife, sewing machine 1, sewing machine 2, sewing notions, shop broom, silverware, simple chair, soccer players, steak knife, steaming cup and saucer, watering can, wheelbarrow, wrench.
- BIRDS
Adult quail, albatross, baby quail, blackbird, blackbird flying, chickadee, China knob goose, crane landing, crane ogling, crane prancing, duck landing, duck swimming, eagle with fish over mountain backdrop, egret flying, elegant hummingbird, feeding pelican, free-hand bird, great blue heron, hawk soaring, hummingbird feeding, large avocet, mallard swimming, macaw, jay, mourning dove with gingko, nuthatch, penguin looking up/down, pelican perched, pelican swimming, pheasant in flight, tall penguin, tern flying in wispy sky, toucan, wading avocets, wading egret, walking bird.
- FLORA & FAUNA
Bamboo (a vertical border), box turtle, butterfly, columbine, dragonfly, duck potato, eucalyptus, fancy iris, fern leaf, fly mushroom, frog looking up, fucshia, gingko leaf, gingko/willow leaves, goosefoot, half mum, harp leaf, iris blossom, jungle leaf and fruit, leaf and seed medley, leafy branch, leaping frog, lily, little mum, wild butterfly orchid, lunaria, lupine, maple leaf, maple leaf and serviceberry leaf, maple leaves, mature mushroom, mushroom stand, oak leaf, overall leaves, palm-like leaf, pond turtle, poppy, seed, sharp leaf, sideview of butterfly, simple moth, stem of locust leaves, strawberry patch, stylized wild plants, stylized woodland leaf, sunflowers, swallowtail butterfly, three wild irises, trillium leaf, tropical split leaf, western soapberry leaf, sheatgrass, whimsical bee, whimsical beetle, wild bud, wild lily, wild orchid, wild orchids, wild violet, willow/eucalyptus leaves, wood sorrel blossom, young fern, young mushrooms.
- DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Alpaca mom, angora billy goat, angora goat, bison, boxer, cat leaping, cat lying, cat preening, cat reaching, cat sitting, cat stalking, cat stretching, cat walking, cornish rooster, cow, dachsund, ewe, frolicking hound, hen, horse jogging, horse running, horse walking, little sheep, longhorn steer, pig, ram, rooster, running hound, scotty dog, singing rooster, tracking hound, wolf/german shepherd, young alpaca.
- WOODLAND ANIMALS
Arctic hare, bounding deer, coyote howling, deer feeding, field rabbit, fox looking back, fox sitting, hare sitting, kodiak bear, leaping deer, moose, mule deer doe, posing buck, running hare, tracking fox, whitetail buck.
- UNDER THE SEA
Blue gill, bowhead whale, crab, dolphins, finback whale, friendly shark, goldfish, great white shark, hammerhead shark, happy shark, humpback whale, kelp, kelp frond, largemouth bass, oyster drill/periwinkle shell, rock fish, rocking seahorse, sea lion, seal barking, seahorse garden, seahorse stretching, seahorse with sea leaves, seahorse with seaweed, sea plant, sea turtle, seaweed leaves, striped bass, swimming elephant seal, tiny whale, whales in waves, whelk shell, whimsical rock fish, whimsical whale.
- TEXTURES
A mix of seeds and right-angle meander, beetle back, clouds, cloudy landscape with river, concentric teardrops, endless mums, Laura's meandering, orange peel/diamond plate facets, overall leaves, random baptist fan, right-angle meander, split circle, split triangles, 90 degree meander shaped like cordwood.
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